Great Scot! England invented the haggis

IT MAY be hard to swallow just days after Burns night, but food historians believe haggis was invented in England.

- Mark Branagan

Despite being Scotland’s national dish, experts reckon it was first cooked up in the kitchens of Richard II’s medieval court at Westminster Hall, now the seat of the British Parliament.

This would mean it was created four centuries before Robert Burns wrote Address To A Haggis. According to long lost records, it only became popular in Scotland in the late 18th century because the ingredients were cheap and much of the country had been plunged into poverty.